Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances,
which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and
possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
{4:2} You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall
you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh
your God which I command you. {4:3} Your eyes have seen what Yahweh
did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor,
Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you. {4:4} But
you who did cleave to Yahweh your God are alive everyone of you this
day. {4:5} Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as
Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the
land where you go in to possess it. {4:6} Keep therefore and do them;
for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the
peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great
nation is a wise and understanding people. {4:7} For what great nation
is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is
whenever we call on him? {4:8} What great nation is there, that has
statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set
before you this day? {4:9} Only take heed to yourself, and keep your
soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and
lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make
them known to your children and your children's children; {4:10} the
day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said
to me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words,
that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the
earth, and that they may teach their children. {4:11} You came near
and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the
heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. {4:12}
Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice
of words, but you saw no form; only [you heard] a voice. {4:13} He
declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even
the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone. {4:14}
Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances,
that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
{4:15} Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner
of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst
of the fire. {4:16} Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an
engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or
female, {4:17} the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the
likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, {4:18} the likeness
of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that
is in the water under the earth; {4:19} and lest you lift up your eyes
to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even
all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and
serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples
under the whole sky. {4:20} But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you
forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of
inheritance, as at this day. {4:21} Furthermore Yahweh was angry with
me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and
that I should not go in to that good land, which Yahweh your God gives
you for an inheritance: {4:22} but I must die in this land, I must not
go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.
{4:23} Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh
your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in
the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you. {4:24}
For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. {4:25} When
you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have
been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an
engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is
evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger; {4:26}
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you
shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the
Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall
utterly be destroyed. {4:27} Yahweh will scatter you among the
peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where
Yahweh shall lead you away. {4:28} There you shall serve gods, the
work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor
eat, nor smell. {4:29} But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God,
and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart
and with all your soul. {4:30} When you are in oppression, and all
these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to
Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice: {4:31} for Yahweh your God
is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor
forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them. {4:32} For
ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the
day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky
to the other, whether there has been [any such thing] as this great
thing is, or has been heard like it? {4:33} Did ever a people hear the
voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard,
and live? {4:34} Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the
midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by
war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great
terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt
before your eyes? {4:35} To you it was shown, that you might know that
Yahweh he is God; there is none else besides him. {4:36} Out of heaven
he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and on
earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out
of the midst of the fire. {4:37} Because he loved your fathers,
therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his
presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; {4:38} to drive out
nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you
in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day. {4:39}
Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh he is
God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is none else.
{4:40} You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I
command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your
children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land,
which Yahweh your God gives you, forever. {4:41} Then Moses set apart
three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; {4:42} that the
manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and
didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities
he might live: {4:43} [namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain
country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites;
and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites. {4:44} This is the law which
Moses set before the children of Israel: {4:45} these are the
testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke
to the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt, {4:46}
beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land
of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and
the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt.
{4:47} They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of
Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan
toward the sunrise; {4:48} from Aroer, which is on the edge of the
valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon), {4:49}
and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the
Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
{5:1} Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel,
the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day,
that you may learn them, and observe to do them. {5:2} Yahweh our God
made a covenant with us in Horeb. {5:3} Yahweh didn't make this
covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us
here alive this day. {5:4} Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the
mountain out of the midst of the fire, {5:5} (I stood between Yahweh
and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for you were
afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;)
saying, {5:6} "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. {5:7} You shall have no other
gods before me.
{5:8} "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any
likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: {5:9} you
shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh,
your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on
the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those
who hate me; {5:10} and showing loving kindness to thousands of those
who love me and keep my commandments.
{5:11} "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain: for
Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
{5:12} "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God
commanded you. {5:13} Six days shall you labor, and do all your work;
{5:14} but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God: [in it]
you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor
your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your
donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within
your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as
well as you. {5:15} You shall remember that you were a servant in the
land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a
mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God
commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
{5:16} "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God
commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well
with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
{5:17} "You shall not murder.
{5:18} "Neither shall you commit adultery.
{5:19} "Neither shall you steal.
{5:20} "Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.
{5:21} "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall
you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or
his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your
neighbor's."
{5:22} These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain
out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness,
with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables
of stone, and gave them to me. {5:23} It happened, when you heard the
voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning
with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your
tribes, and your elders; {5:24} and you said, Behold, Yahweh our God
has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice
out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does
speak with man, and he lives. {5:25} Now therefore why should we die?
for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh
our God any more, then we shall die. {5:26} For who is there of all
flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the
midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? {5:27} Go you near, and hear
all that Yahweh our God shall say: and speak you to us all that Yahweh
our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it. {5:28}
Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and Yahweh
said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which
they have spoken to you: they have well said all that they have
spoken. {5:29} Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they
would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be
well with them, and with their children forever! {5:30} Go tell them,
Return you to your tents. {5:31} But as for you, stand you here by me,
and I will speak to you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the
land which I give them to possess it. {5:32} You shall observe to do
therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you: you shall not turn
aside to the right hand or to the left. {5:33} You shall walk in all
the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live,
and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days
in the land which you shall possess.
{6:1} Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances,
which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them
in the land where you go over to possess it; {6:2} that you might fear
Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which
I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of
your life; and that your days may be prolonged. {6:3} Hear therefore,
Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that
you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has
promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. {6:4} Hear,
Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one: {6:5} and you shall love
Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with
all your might. {6:6} These words, which I command you this day, shall
be on your heart; {6:7} and you shall teach them diligently to your
children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when
you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
{6:8} You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be
for symbols between your eyes. {6:9} You shall write them on the door
posts of your house, and on your gates. {6:10} It shall be, when
Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your
fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and
goodly cities, which you didn't build, {6:11} and houses full of all
good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you
didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you
shall eat and be full; {6:12} then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who
brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. {6:13} You shall fear Yahweh your God; and him shall you
serve, and shall swear by his name. {6:14} You shall not go after
other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you; {6:15}
for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the
anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you
from off the face of the earth. {6:16} You shall not tempt Yahweh your
God, as you tempted him in Massah. {6:17} You shall diligently keep
the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his
statutes, which he has commanded you. {6:18} You shall do that which
is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be well with
you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh
swore to your fathers, {6:19} to thrust out all your enemies from
before you, as Yahweh has spoken. {6:20} When your son asks you in
time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and
the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you? {6:21} then
you shall tell your son, We were Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and
Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; {6:22} and Yahweh
showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and
on all his house, before our eyes; {6:23} and he brought us out from
there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore
to our fathers. {6:24} Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes,
to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us
alive, as at this day. {6:25} It shall be righteousness to us, if we
observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has
commanded us.
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